Mental Hospital Bills

Below is the poem entitled Mental Hospital Bills which was written by poet
Carolyn
Devonshire. Please feel free to comment on this poem. However, please remember, PoetrySoup is a place of encouragement and growth.

Mental Hospital Bills

dadgum doctors, heads up their butts
poking, prodding, pricking skin
neurologist a psychopath
gets pleasure as electric volts pass through my body
family doctor showed little concern
made me paranoid about irregular heartbeat
EKG failed to determine cause
left me more in doubt than at ease
dentist like a character from Dustin Hoffman’s “Marathon Man”
the more pain inflicted
the more he rejoiced
deep root cleaning caused severe infection
bloodwork done by Vampira clones
labs filled with tubes and needles
results not shared with me
yet I footed the bill
optometrist an Oriental who moved so fast
didn’t care if the prescribed glasses worked
boo on you, dang aristocrats
waving your credentials
nurses so slow to respond
MRI promised on CD, but couldn’t be obtained
just like the blood tests, needed a “report”
doctors driving me insane
each should share my mental hospital bills

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Congrats on your win Carolyn! I appreciate your comments on my poem. i don't think I earned the placement, especially after reading your entry. It should have placed higher than mine. Mine was just fiction, while yours has a lot of truth in it. I suspect some personal experience inspired parts of this? I hope not. but if so, hugs.

This was filled with admiration for a treasured friendship.Carolyn your friendship lights up my day.Thanks for the comment you sent.Me and my daughter start cooking today I do all the mixing she does stove stuff grandaughter is helper.Have a great Christmas hope you get everything you want.Merry Christmas Teresa

I really enjoyed that image, of love literally coming down--very touching story, Carolyn--so sweet of John!:) Congrats on your win :)--thank you btw for all your comments in my poems--and hmm as for that hotdog boy, I'm afraid he only exists in my imagination ;) but I did write a version of actually coming into contact with him--if you're curious to find out, it's the same title as that one--"20:10" --thanks again--hugs, nikko :)

Very beautiful. This is the best one of yours that i have read yet! Did it win in a contest. This Love comes down, wasn't it a contest topic before i came here? Anyway, I appreciate your great reponse to me today. LUv, andrea